Canister!

The dispute over renovations to a monument to Nathan Bedford Forrest in Selma drags on, and on, and on, sucking in more aggrieved parties as it goes. I haven’t talked about it much here because every aspect of it seems to be exactly according to script, with lots of angry, clichéd rhetoric and hyperbole on all sides. We’ve seen this movie before.

Looks like the white nationalist League of the South (LoS) has decided to slink back into the shadows, having changed the status of its Facebook group to “closed,” so that non-members can no longer see the LoSers’ online discussions in real time. This is not entirely unexpected, as the group has come in for some negative media coverage lately. It does raise the question, though, about how their abandonment of social media is going to raise the public visibility of their movement; mens room graffiti and flagging empty office buildings at night isn’t likely to do the trick.

Speaking of look-alikes, check out this still from the upcoming Spielberg film. Can you believe that the actor who’s a dead-ringer for Stanton is also this guy? I never aspired to an acting career, but if I had, I’d want to be Bruce McGill.